Josh of Cartoons By Josh writes:
Kevin Anderson’s post at Bishop Hill intrigued me.
He came up with 4 simple theoretical ‘legs’ upon which to launch his clear view that
Anthropogenic Global Warming was serious and needed immediate attention.
A year ago I would have agreed (hey, lots of us did, ‘cos ‘they’ said it was all true!)
A year on and the picture does not look so clear: subterfuge, lost data, no data,
no warming, false predicitions, misinformation, fudged inqiries, bad science, no science.
It may look clear to Kev, but for the ordinary chap like me it all looks more shoogly than ever.
This cartoon is an attempt to show that – no doubt with huge scientific inaccuracies and
misrepresentations. So take aim, fire and give me your best shot.
I am happy to change this cartoon to make it better!
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I’d like to fourth (fifth?) the motion that suggested Escher.
A cartoon that could incorporate every one of the wonderful ideas above will be either a world-beater or so complicated as to be incomprehensible. It’ll take an experiment to figure that out. Josh, or anyone else who might like to try, will need a bigger canvas.
Crowd-sourcing for cartoons now. The zeitgeist!
Add beavers chewing on the wooden legs, and have them labeled “FOI requests”and “Climategate emails”. And, of course, you have to have a piece of paper with a graph of the “decline” hidden underneath the saucer or plate.
Several years ago researchers at the University of British Columbia were claiming they were trying to figure out how to get trees to grow more square.
A 1989 magazine article reports that Robert Falls was successful increasing growth at four points on trunks of 1 to 2 inch saplings of three popular tree types. Supposedly someone had some success in the 1940s as well. (My question is “how labour intensive is the method?” – does today’s wood value support the effort put into orchards, for example?)
The news is referred to at:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-7520077.html
http://tnvalleywoodclub.org/archives/newsletters/1999/TVWW06-99.pdf
I see many glib references but nothing solid. (Robert Falls is a common name.)
Though these ones are dated as some might expect:
http://www.nhpr.org/node/15676
and this one may or may not be
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3624021.stm
with no mention of square in this article about the tree species claimed to be in the UK facility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia_cordata
Keith;
Maybe they could borrow some genes from square tomatoes: http://daviswiki.org/square_tomato